Ralph Nucelli of Irondequoit, co-owner of Jim and Ralph's, cooks up french fries on Tuesday, January 8, 2008.

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It started before people knew the restaurant, Jim and Ralph's, was closing. And the applause kept coming even after word came down on the restaurant's Facebook page that the cooks had retired, the doors had closed, that the neighborhood restaurant had been swept into the crowded dustbin of history.